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FIRST LOOK: W.H. PRIVACY MEETINGS TO CONTINUE — After hosting TechAmerica, TechNet, ITI, EPIC and other top organizations in the Roosevelt Room yesterday morning, the White House intends to huddle at least one more time with other privacy stakeholders at a meeting slated for tomorrow, MT has learned. That next session, much like the discussion on yesterday, will be focused on commercial privacy (Web tracking), government/law-enforcement privacy (NSA surveillance) and international privacy norms (the EU), according to sources who already huddled this week with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and general counsel Kathy Ruemmler.

— Explained a source in the room for the first such talk yesterday:"The White House is trying to think about how we deal with issues around data security and privacy in a world of ubiquitous technology.” Separately, EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg told us it had been a welcome, productive discussion, during which consumer groups aired their concerns. Yet the meeting — which also featured reps from Business Roundtable, the ACLU and others — seem to end with participants staking their usual positions: There was broad support for "greater transparency" in areas like NSA surveillance, but privacy hawks went a step further in asking for new limits on law-enforcement collection and use. “There was broad concern among privacy advocates and the private sector about the impact of the NSA’s surveillance efforts,” said ACLU President Susan N. Herman in a statement to MT, adding: “While the White House should be commended for engaging outside perspectives, it’s not clear yet that the White House appreciates the need to scale back these surveillance programs substantially instead of just rationalizing or tinkering with them.”

— There also emerged far less consensus on private-sector data use, sources said, no shock to those long following the debate. And our earlier fly on the wall told us the administration neither confirmed nor denied whether it’s using its sessions as an entree for a forthcoming task force on privacy issues, as some expect. For now, a WH spox declined to offer further details to MT as to this week's second meeting, and the aide wouldn't comment on who's been invited tomorrow and what comes next.

FWD.US HOSTS DENHAM TO CONTINUE IMMIGRATION PUSH — California GOP Rep. Jeff Denham, an immigration-reform supporter, teams up today for an event in San Francisco featuring Ron Conway and other Valley leaders. The congressman, as you’d expect, is expected to make an appeal to the tech industry as it's clamoring for more high-skilled workers. And the roundtable today follows a speech from Mark Zuckerberg on Monday at the screening of a film about the so-called Dreamers. Attending that event, for those who missed it, were the House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, former Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell Jobs and Aneesh Chopra, the former U.S. CTO who recently lost his bid to become Virginia’s lieutenant governor.

Good Wednesday morning, welcome back to Morning Tech — where your founding MT-er, Tony, is back in the saddle, but only temporarily, because Alex is on vacation. Feel free to send Alex a nasty, hateful or jealous note. But also feel free instead to send me comments, tips and more at tromm@politico.com and @tonyromm. And find the full Pro Tech crew's contact info below today's speed read.

NYT, A1: 'TECH MAGNATES BET ON BOOKER IN WEB VENTURE' — David M. Halbfinger, Raymond Hernandez and Claire Cain Miller in today’s paper: “The conference room in the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters of LinkedIn was packed with the stars of Silicon Valley. ... Two ½ years later, some of those same Silicon Valley leaders joined forces again on Mr. Booker’s behalf. But this time, their efforts resulted in giving Mr. Booker, until then an admired outsider, the equivalent of full-fledged membership in their elite circle: an Internet start-up of his own. Mr. Booker personally has obtained money for the start-up, called Waywire, from influential investors, including Eric E. Schmidt . . . A year after its debut, Waywire has already endured a round of layoffs and had just 2,207 visitors in June, according to Compete, a Web-tracking service. The company says it is still under development. Yet in a financial disclosure filed last month, Mr. Booker, 44, revealed that his stake in the company was worth $1 million to $5 million.” More: http://nyti.ms/17wjtZU

TODAY: COMMERCE SECRETARY TALKS COPYRIGHT IN LAND OF COUNTRY MUSIC — Secretary Penny Pritzker heads to Nashville for a roundtable with the National Songwriters Association International, a discussion that'll be co-hosted by RIAA chief Cary Sherman, per the agency. Recall that just last week the Commerce Department unveiled a green paper on copyright policy in the digital age, a document that proposed cross-industry collaboration on DMCA takedowns and more public debate and roundtables on remixes, the first-sale doctrine and enforcement. The report further repeated old White House calls for legislation in areas like illegal, unauthorized streaming, while emphasizing the need for new federal rules on rate setting and more.

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CRITICAL TAKEAWAYS FROM W.H. CYBER PERK PLAN — Incentives are the linchpins in the president's executive order on cybersecurity: Only through some seriously attractive market perks can the White House convince businesses to adopt any voluntary, new standards, the likes of which are currently being drafted. The Obama administration put out its initial, unfinished list yesterday — via your MT-er, a recap: http://politico.pro/15FzzEL — but here's what matters as the debate unfolds:

— First, some of these proposals require Congress. Liability protection, for one, probably must come from legislation — or so many lawmakers and cyber experts agree. But the W.H.'s cyber chief, Michael Daniel, told your MT-er the admin hasn't yet decided whether to write a proposal for Congress. Second, some of the incentives aren't going to be revealed until a draft framework is delivered this October. In fact, the W.H. blog post acknowledges as much, but in a subtle way, as do the agencies that submitted incentive recommendations. And third, cybersecurity insurance is a big deal for the WH, and it could perhaps be tied with liability protection. The DHS final summary, which informed the W.H.’s findings released Tuesday, spells this out: "Insurance options could include a requirement for the purchase of private market liability insurance in order to apply for these liability protections and legal benefits.”

ISSA'S GAVEL UP FOR GRABS — Rachael Bade on team Pro Tax looks into the crystal ball this a.m.: "About a half dozen lawmakers are jockeying for the gavel of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, trying to prove to their colleagues that they have the chops to probe the Obama administration and savvy to flack their findings on television. Issa’s term as the Obama administration’s chief inquisitor expires at the end of 2014 and unless leaders waive party rules, he won’t be eligible to keep running the committee." The early shortlist to lead OGR: John Mica, Jim Jordan, Jason Chaffetz, Mike Turner, Patrick McHenry or Doc Hastings. More: http://politico.pro/1caTnDt

FEW HILL VOICES ON TWC-CBS —Time Warner Cable and CBS continue to duke it out as we begin the day, meaning millions of TWC subscribers still aren't able to watch CBS programming. But the ongoing biz flap hasn't exactly resonated much on Capitol Hill. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the leader of the Commerce Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, the House telecom chief, both didn't respond to MT as to whether a hearing is needed on the standoff.

— Rep. Anna Eshoo, though, is one of the few lately to express dissatisfaction. She said in a statement: "I also intend to carefully examine whether changes to current law are needed to adequately protect consumers and prevent the reoccurrence of blackouts.” AndSen. Ed Markey also fired off a letter last night to the FCC. “I believe the public interest would be best served if carriage is restored by the parties at the earliest possible time so that consumers are not long caught in the middle,” he noted, emphasizing he takes no position in the matter. He still urged the FCC to investigate “reports that CBS is blocking access to its Internet-based video for Time Warner Cable broadband customers.”

ICYMI: TWITTER'S NEW TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION — Twitter has struggled to battle back hackers, and there's no shortage of folks who want the company to hurry in rolling out a more secure, two-factor authentication system. Fortunately for critics, Twitter is making progress, and Mat Honan at Wired got an early look at it: "On the user end, [the new system] means there’s no string of numbers to enter, nor do you have to swap to a third party authentication app or carrier. You just use the Twitter client itself. It means that the system isn’t vulnerable to a compromised SMS delivery channel, and moreover it’s easy." Much more on the technical specs here: http://bit.ly/11KcVbh

SPEED READ:

— WHAT BEZOS CAN BRING TO WAPO: It’s selection, personalization, metrics and an eye on the long game, writes our own Eric Engleman in Pro (http://politico.pro/1ca0bRM) . . . A more national platform, writes the WSJ, noting that media analysts tell the paper Bezos really should think about e-commerce (http://on.wsj.com/14i9B7Z) . . . No quick fix, yet some excited he’s an outsider, says the NYT (http://nyti.ms/17wvdva) . . . A new focus on news delivery honed from Amazon’s essence, per WaPo itself (http://wapo.st/141mrmQ) . . . An emphasis on digital, says the AP (http://apne.ws/141naEK)

— MORE ON THE TECH LINK, PER WAPO: Craig Timberg and Jia Lynn Yang report, “On a relatively short list of prospective buyers — Graham said it was fewer than a dozen — were some people from the high-tech world that had attracted Graham for years, as he joined the board of Facebook and built extensive relationships with tech leaders. Among them was Bezos. Key to his success, Graham and others noticed, was a willingness to forgo short-term profits while building a business into a powerful position within a market.” More: http://wapo.st/141osjd

— WSJ: LESSONS FOR TWC-CBS: The Bezos WaPo buy, however unrelated to the retrans dispute, should scare the TV world and its investors. http://on.wsj.com/1cuwt9o

— U.S. EYES VIETNAM NET CENSOR: U.S. officials aren’t pleased with new Vietnamese limits on political dissent, the NYT reports. http://nyti.ms/15IT3Zh

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